Hi Heather,

I have pasted an email below that links to two books that might help (backstory included).

Plus, there is this:

Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé, by Annabelle Dolidon and Stéphanie Roulon. 

 

 Stories of Avenirs is a textbook based on nine French science fiction news targeted at an audience of foreign (intermediate and advanced) learners but also a native audience wishing to deepen its knowledge of modern science fiction - after a preliminary chapter which recalls the historical bases of the genre. The manual proposes a holistic approach (stylistic, linguistic, and intercultural) and asks for critical thinking through reading, interpretation, conversation, research and presentations, with a twofold objective: to develop French language skills in contemporary subjects through fiction; and to introduce French and francophone science fiction to foreign learners.

 

 

Cheers,

Rajiv

 

 

From: "Bolick, Josh" <jbolick@ku.edu>
Date: Monday, March 26, 2018 at 5:49 AM
To: Karen Lauritsen <klaurits@umn.edu>
Cc: Rajiv Jhangiani <rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>, Sarah Cohen <sfcohen@umn.edu>, David Ernst <dernst@umn.edu>
Subject: 2 French OERs

 

Hi Karen,

 

I hope you're excellent! I'm writing to let you know that, with Rajiv's (copied) help, KU Libraries was recently able to work with the author of 2 intro french texts to make them open. Both were conventionally published, but went out of print, which reverted the rights back to the authors, and now the authors have agreed to open (CC-BY-NC) licensing for them.

 

Dinneen, David A., Christiansen, Hope., Kernen, Madeleine., Pensec, Herve. "Au Boulot! First-Year French." Houghton Mifflin Custom Publishing. 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15572

 

Dinneen, David A. & Kernen, Madeleine. "Chapeau! First-Year French" Wiley. 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15558

 

In addition to the primary textbooks, both include supplements to support instruction (exercises, etc). The meet the OTL criteria and we'd love to see them included so they can be more fully utilized. I realize they're a little dated, but I would guess they're still fine for intro instruction and at least they're licensed to allow for modernizing now.

 

Plus, as the UMN kids say: "I figured French hadn't changed that much." Let me know if you need any more information.

 

Cheers,

 

Josh

 

Josh Bolick
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright
Watson Library
University of Kansas

785 864 1828

 

 

 

 

From: Canadaoer <canadaoer-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca> on behalf of "Ross, Heather" <heather.ross@usask.ca>
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 2:55 PM
To: "canadaoer@kodos.bccampus.ca" <canadaoer@kodos.bccampus.ca>
Subject: [Canadaoer] OER For French

 

An instructor who teaches first year university French is looking for an open textbook. Does anyone know of something to replace this:



Invitation au monde francophone" (2nd edition), Jarvis, Gilbert A., Thérèse M. Bonin, Diane W. Birckbichler, Anne Lair, Boston: Heinle Cengage Learning, 2005.



Thank you.



 

Heather M. Ross (B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed.)

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